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LADIES SHOULD LISTEN (1934)

#ladies should listen #cary grant #nydia westman #classicfilmcentral #classicfilmsource #classicfilmblr #classicfilmedit #oldhollywoodedit #filmedit #carygrantedit #minee #old films #filmgifs #cinemaspast #moviegifs #userdanahscott #userraffaella #singinprincess #omgari #userbarrow #reblog if you too would like to be crushed to a pulp by cary grant #<- i showed great restrain in not putting that in the description #asdfghjk i'm asexual i don't even know what it means #anyway i sense that the hot vintage poll will send me down a spiral

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Charles Boyer-Nydia Westman "Huracán" (When tomorrow comes) 1939, de John M. Stahl.

#Nydia Westman #Charles Boyer #John M. Stahl

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(via Film Noir Photos: Girls Who Wear Glasses: Nydia Westman)

with Cary Grant in  Ladies Should Listen (1934)

#Nydia Westman #Cary Grant in Ladies Should Listen #film #vintage #glasses

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Ladies Should Listen (1934) Frank Tuttle

December 4th 2022

#ladies should listen #1934 #frank tuttle #cary grant #frances drake #nydia westman #edward everett horton #charles ray #rafael corio #rosita moreno #george barbier #charles arnt #ann sheridan #pre-code

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King of the Jungle (1933) with #FrancesDee #BusterCrabbe #NydiaWestman — #adventure #romance #kingofthejungle #precode #precodehollywood

#frances dee #buster crabbe #nydia Westman #king of the jungle #romance #adventure #old hollywood #precode #pre code hollywood #golden age of hollywood #silver screen legends #silver screen goddess #classic film #precode hollywood

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Dread by the Decade: The Cat and the Canary

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Remake of: The Cat and the Canary (1927) Year: 1939 Genre: Horror Comedy, Psychological Horror Rating: UR (Recommended: PG) Country: USA Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Director: Elliott Nugent Cinematographer: Charles B. Lang Editor: Archie Marshek Composer: Ernst Toch Writers: Walter de Leon, Lynn Starling Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Nydia Westman, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson, George Zucco, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery

Plot: When the heirs of a dead millionaire gather for the reading of his will, a mysterious figure begins stalking them.

Review: A consistently funny whodunit with charismatic leads, this movie both honors and reinvigorates its source material.

Overall Rating: 4/5

Story: 4/5 - While it's not the most unique idea—it is a remake, after all—it's kept fresh by great comedy, fun characters, and a genuinely interesting mystery.

Performances: 4.5/5 - Everyone is on top form, but Hope and Westman are especially endearing and hilarious.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Fantastic lighting and shadow use.

Editing: 4/5 - Very smooth and natural.

Music: 3/5

Sets: 4/5 - The swamp and mansion sets are quite detailed.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - Really great, fashionable styling.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Ableism against mentally ill people (brief, dialogue only)

#The Cat and the Canary (1939) #The Cat and the Canary #Elliott Nugent #American #horror comedy #psychological horror #Dread by the Decade #review #1930s

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King of the Jungle 1933 H Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin, Buster Crabbe,..

King of the Jungle is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and Max Marcin and written by Charles Thurley Stoneham, Max Marcin, Fred Niblo, Jr. and Philip Wylie. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee, Sidney Toler, Nydia Westman, Robert Barrat, Irving Pichel and Douglass Dumbrille.[1][2] The film was released on March 10, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. .

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Nydia Westman and Hale Hamilton in

Manhattan Tower (1932) Director: Frank R Strayer

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Sweet photo of Judith Anderson with Nydia Westman, Eddie Cantor and ‘Baby Quintanilla’ (the name refers to twin girls who are in fact playing a little boy) in the equally sweet comedy-drama Forty Little Mothers (1940). 

The movie was released in the same year as Hitchcock’s Rebecca. While Judith’s hairstyle and costume here are reminiscent of the villainous Mrs Danvers’, her character in Forty Little Mothers - headmistress Madame Granville - is strict rather than menacing. She even breaks into song.

#judith anderson #eddie cantor #nydia westman #forty little mothers #old hollywood #classic movie #classic movies #classic film #classic films #1940 #1940s #busby berkeley

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COOKING HER GOOSE

1929

Cooking Her Goose is a comedy by H.H. Van Loan and Lolita Ann Westman. The play had its world premiere at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, California. 

The title was suggest by its intended leading lady, whose sister co-wrote the play (over eight months) expressly for her. It was so named because the heroine’s decisions basically cook her own goose. Using that logic, the title might very well have been Makes Her Bed!

When the Hollywood Playhouse was booked, Duffy took the play to the Alcazar where it had its world premiere on August 4, 1929. 

Cooking Her Goose tells the story of Nancy Gray, daughter of a wealthy and prominent family who decides an elopement will give her a thrill. So she runs off to Atlantic City with Dick Mercer Jr., a youth she has known all her life. However, she finds she has changed her mind and while her husband-to-be is getting a license, she runs away for a second time turning up at the home of a wealthy bachelor to apply for a position as a cook. Owing to the prominence of the two families, the elopement becomes a front-page story and Nancy finds herself involved In any number of humorous complications. The shooting of a thief In the apartment In Atlantic City adds to the general excitement and Nancy extricates herself from one predicament only to find that she has plunged into another.

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE...

The play was produced by Henry Duffy and starred Nydia Westman, a Broadway star, up-and-coming movie actress, and (not coincidentally) sister of one of the authors.

MOTHER GOOSE...

Nydia had experience with farm animals like geese, having been seen on Broadway in John Golden’s Pigs. Her playwright sister was also an actress, having appeared on Broadway in 1922 with their brother, Theodore, who also was a writer. Needless to say, the Westman family was ‘born in a trunk’ to theatrical parents.  

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER...

Also in the cast was Jason Robards (Sr), who was dabbling in both stage and screen, but couldn’t decide which better suited him. 

In 1933, Robards and Westman both had small roles in the Maurice Chevalier film The Way To Love.

Most theatre fans known the story of how Cynthia Nixon appeared in two Broadway shows at the same time, The Real Thing and Hurlyburly, in 1984, but Ben Taggart did it first in 1929.

Actress Helen Kleeb played maid Mary Muldoon. Like Westman, Kleeb became one of television’s most popular character actors, best remembered for playing Mamie Baldwin on “The Waltons”. In 1969, Kleeb and Westman were re-united on an episode of “Mr. Deeds Goes To Town”. 

After a successful run at the Alcazar, Duffy moved the production to his Dufwin Theatre (named for its owners Duffy and Dale Winter) in Oakland, California starting September 13, 1929. The authors took the opportunity to make some changes to the script. Westman was joined by a new cast featuring Leo Llndhard, Irving Mitchell, Joseph de Stefanl, Dorothy Lammar, and Thomas Chatterton.

WILD GOOSE CHASE...

During the course of the play, the characters actually eat goose drumsticks. In Oakland, the property man told leading lady Westman that there were no geese to be found anywhere. She bet him that she could find a goose. After coming up goose-less, she happened on a poultry farm and decided to steal a goose and collect on the bet. She was discovered by a police officer and agreed to pay for the goose - and got him to pose for a photo!  

Coincidentally, in the alphabetical theatre listings of the Oakland Tribune, Cooking Her Goose was listed next to the comedy film The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City. The film was based on the 1921 play Two Blocks Away. 

In October, Duffy finally moved the play to his Hollywood Playhouse, which was planned from the start. 

Helen Kleeb rejoined the cast in Hollywood, still headlined by Westman. The play was always billed as a “jazz age comedy” that invoked “chuckles, laughs, and yells”. 

CARVING THE GOOSE...

Also planned from the start (at least after the play was ruled a success) was to head East and play New York - hopefully Broadway. But fate and filmdom had other plans. The Hollywood engagement ended a week early and the play headed to Seattle, where Duffy also had a theatre. 

GOOSE BUMPS...

On November 18th, it was reported that the Goose would make a stop on its migration to Broadway, setting up a nest in the Windy City. Instead of Seattle, Sacramento saw the first production of the play without Westman. Actor Roy Hiram Clair as the Detective was now above the title.  

CHRISTMAS GOOSE...

National City, California’s Savoy Theatre hosted the next production staring in Mid-December 1929.  

Just before New Year 1930, the Goose was cooked for good. But that wasn’t the end of the story.  The February 1, 1930 it was announced that Cooking Her Goose would be Mary Astor’s next picture, and Astor’s first film for RKO. Astor would re-team with her silent film beau Lloyd Hughes in their first talkie together.

CRISPY GOOSE...

RKO handed the film over to director Donald Crisp. His only sound film, it would be the last of his directing projects for the actor / director, who later won an Oscar for acting in How Green Was My Valley (1941). The play was adapted for the screen by Jane Murfin and was released under the title of The Runaway Bride (aka Run Away Bride aka Runaway Bride aka Run-Away Bride) in May 1930. It is not related to the 1999 film Runaway Bride starring Julia Roberts. Like the play, the action took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Like the play, filming never left California.  

On August 30, 1930, Atlantic City finally got to see the play and the film that was set there when the talking picture Runaway Bride opened at the Royal Theatre on Atlantic and Ohio.  The theatre opened that same year, but was re-named the Hollywood Theatre a few years later. By the late 1970s its goose was cooked and it met a runaway demolition ball. 

#Atlantic City #Runaway Bride #Theatre #1929 #Cooking Her Goose #Henry Duffy #Nydia Westman #Helen Kleeb #Jason Robards Sr. #Ben Taggart #John Golden #HH Van Loan #Lolita Anne Westman #Comedy #RKO #Alcazar Theatre #Dufwin Theatre #San Francisco #Oakland #Goose

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Nydia Westman (New York City, 19/02/1902-Burbank, California, 23/05/1970).

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #39: Craig’s Wife (1936) - dir. Dorothy Arzner (52 Films by Women 2019: #6)

Fans of this blog should know that I am a great devotee of director Dorothy Arzner. Over several years, I have enjoyed a number of her feature films: The Wild Party (1929), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), Christopher Strong (1933), Nana (1934), The Bride Wore Red (1937), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and First Comes Courage (1943). But I had yearned to see Craig’s Wife, and thanks to TCM, I was finally able to do so last week.

With her talent for telling women’s stories, Arzner presents the engrossing tale of coldhearted social climber Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell in her first leading role). Harriet takes advantage of the money and title that come with her marriage to her adoring husband Walter (John Boles), but where love is concerned, her heart is empty. Harriet’s well-cultivated veneer is a surface as polished as her immaculate floors and its falseness is apparent to everyone but sweet, sincere Walter. It is not until the arrival of Harriet’s bright-eyed niece, Ethel Landreth (Dorothy Wilson), that Harriet’s supreme authority is challenged and the Craig house begins to crumble.

Rosalind Russell makes Harriet Craig more than a witch with ice water in her veins. As she begins to get her comeuppance and her carefully constructed existence falls apart, it’s possible to feel sorry for such a horrible woman thanks to Russell’s acting, Arzner’s direction and some first-rate camerawork by cinematographer Lucien Ballard. There is also a significant number of skilled character actors in supporting roles: Billie Burke as an amiable neighbor, Jane Darwell and Nydia Westman as the hired help in the Craig household, Alma Kruger as Walter Craig’s aunt, and Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Walburn and Kathleen Burke as members of Walter’s social circle. Although Craig’s Wife is not available on DVD, you can the entire film is uploaded onto YouTube, so you can see for yourself how lucky the Hollywood studio system was to have Dorothy Arzner in its ranks in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

#365 day movie challenge 2019 #craig's wife #1936 #1930s #30s #dorothy arzner #52 films by women 2019 #women in film #women filmmakers #women directors #female filmmakers #female directors #rosalind russell #john boles #dorothy wilson #lucien ballard #old hollywood #billie burke #jane darwell #nydia westman #alma kruger #thomas mitchell #raymond walburn #kathleen burke

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Manhattan Tower (1933) Frank R. Strayer

August 14th 2021

#manhattan tower #1933 #frank r. strayer #mary brian #james hall #clay clement #noel francis #irene rich #hale hamilton #nydia westman #jed prouty #billy dooley #walter brennan #pre-code

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, When Tomorrow Comes by #JohnMStahl starring #IreneDunne and #CharlesBoyer, "the storm sequence is exciting and the performances are sincere" JOHN M. STAHL Bil's rating (out of 5): BBB.  USA, 1939.  Universal Pictures.  

#Academy Award 1939 #Barbara O&039;Neil #Charles Boyer #Dwight Taylor #Frank Skinner #Fritz Feld #Irene Dunne #Jack Otterson #James M. Cain #John J. Mescall #John M. Stahl #Milton Carruth #Nella Walker #Nydia Westman #Onslow Stevens #Universal Pictures #Vera West

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Nydia Westman in

Manhattan Tower (1932) Director: Frank R Strayer

#Nydia Westman #Manhattan Tower #1932 #Frank R Strayer #Remington Pictures Corporation #pre-code #films of the 1930s #1930s #black and white films #classic hollywood

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Manhattan Really like Song (1934) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD

Manhattan Enjoy Song (1934) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD

Stars: Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee, Nydia Westman Director: Leonard Fields Writers: Cornell Woolrich (novel)

After possessing been swindled out of their funds by a crooked company manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol are forced to allow their former chauffeur and maid live in their luxury apartment in lieu of having to pay them the…

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